PL HELP ME PL IF U HELP ILL SEND YOU 50 MORE POINTSSS You will be writing a letter to a Sixth Grade Student:

The purpose of your letter is to be honest with a 6th grader about what 7th grade and middle school is like. Your purpose is not to scare them, but to excite them and really give them a glimpse into what is to come for them. You may write in second person point of view, and address the reader. You may also write from your personal experience and use

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme